Review Article
[Retracted] Energy Efficiency and Reliability Considerations in Wireless Body Area Networks: A Survey
Table 2
Key consideration of WBAN applications.
| Application type | Sensor node | Type of sensor | Bandwidth (Hz) | Accuracy (bits) | Data rate | Duty cycle % per time | Power consumption | QoS | Privacy |
| In-body application | Glucose sensor | Strip-base | 0-50 | 16 | Few kbps | <1% | Very Low | Yes | High | Pacemaker | Accelerometer | 0-500 | 12 | Few kbps | <1% | Low | Yes | High | Endoscope capsule | A pill and contains a tiny camera | .. | .. | >2 mbps | <50% | Low | Yes | Medium | On-body medical application | ECG | Skin/chest electrodes | 100-1000 | 12 | 192 kbps | <10% | Low | Yes | High | EMG | Skin electrodes | 0-10000 | 16 | 1.536 mbps | .. | Low | .. | .. | Temperature | Temperature probes or skin patch | 0-1 | 8 | 56 kbps | .. | Low | .. | .. | SpO2 | Pulse oximeter | .. | .. | 32 kbps | <1% | Low | Yes | High | Blood pressure | Arm cuff-based monitor | 0-1 | 8 | <10 bps | <1% | High | Yes | Medium | On-body nonmedical application | Music for headsets | Sound | .. | .. | 1.4 mbps | High | Very high | Yes | Low | Forgotten things monitor | Monitor | .. | .. | 256 kbps | Medium | Low | No | Low | Social networking | Mixed sensor | .. | .. | <200 kbps | <1% | Low | No | High |
|
|